About One Planet Schools

Imagine a school where everyone cares – about themselves, each other, and about the planet; now and in the future.

Now imagine a school where this caring touches everything it does – what and how pupils learn; how the school manages its physical environment and resources; how staff and pupils relate to each other; how they work with their local community – and how they reach out to the wider world.

What you are imagining is a ‘One Planet School’: a place committed to reducing its impact on the planet here and now; a place which prepares young people to act as drivers for sustainability in the future; a place with a vision of how people and nature can live in harmony, on a thriving, green planet.

This is the vision behind WWF’s One Planet Schools programme – a programme which strives to reach out towards the 10.3 million highly influential young people who enter our schools five days a week, 40 weeks of the year. One Planet Schools is about ‘hearts and minds’: it’s about…

• Building understanding and skills
• Exploring values and attitudes
• Offering tools, resources, and activities
• Facilitating discussion
• Encouraging action.

The programme builds on the government’s Sustainable Schools agenda

The One Planet Schools programme will grow and evolve over the next three years, but here’s a taster of what we have to offer currently:

• Learn
• One Planet Schools online
• Child centred learning with Espresso
• A musical adventure
• An annual meeting place for teachers
• Rewarding success
• Resources for the classroom
• Plans for the future
• WWF – the global environment network.